From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx> While switch ports 5 and 7 are disabled (vendor designed port 8 to be used for CPU traffic) they could be used strictly technically. For some reason however both those ports need forcing link to be usable. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm4709-netgear-r8000.dts | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm4709-netgear-r8000.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm4709-netgear-r8000.dts index 55fc9f44cbc7..127ca8741220 100644 --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm4709-netgear-r8000.dts +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/broadcom/bcm4709-netgear-r8000.dts @@ -229,10 +229,20 @@ port@4 { port@5 { status = "disabled"; + + fixed-link { + speed = <1000>; + full-duplex; + }; }; port@7 { status = "disabled"; + + fixed-link { + speed = <1000>; + full-duplex; + }; }; port@8 { -- 2.35.3